Social scientific Old Testament criticism
By: edited by David J. Chalcraft.
Contributors: Chalcraft, David J.
Series: The Biblical seminar ;; 47
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Sheffield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Jews -- Civilization -- To 70 A.D.; Jews -- History -- To 70 A.D.; Jews -- Social conditions.; Jews -- Social life and customs -- To 70 A.D.
Other titles: Journal for the study of the Old Testament.
Notes: Originally published in various issues of Journal for the study of the Old Testament.
Table of contents: title: Theory and methodology. On applying a sociological theory to Biblical studies / Cyril S. Rodd; title: Sociological and literary approaches to the Bible : how shall the twain meet? / David Jobling; title: Using the Nuer culture of Africa in understanding the Old Testament : an evaluation / David Fiensy; title: The 'popular religion' paradigm in Old Testament research : a sociological critique / J. Berlinerblau; title: Sociology of knowledge. The impact of modern and social science assumptions on the reconstruction of Israelite history / Gary A. Herion; title: Literacy and domination : G.A. Herion's sociology of history writing / Mark G. Brett; title: Early Israel in sociological and anthropological perspective. Chiefs in Israel / James W. Flanagan; title: Was early Israel a segmentary society? / J.W. Rogerson; title: The identity of early Israel : the realignment and transformation of late Bronze-Iron Age Palestine / Keith W. Whitelam; title: The regulation of social life : law, ethics and deviance.; title: Customary law and chieftainship : judicial aspects of 2 Samuel 14.4-21 / Elizabeth Bellefontaine; title: Shame as a sanction of social control in Biblical Israel : judicial, political, and social shaming / Lyn M. Bechtel; title: Stratification, power and social justice. Theodicy in a social dimension / Walter Brueggemann; title: Poverty in the social world of the wise / J. David Pleins; title: Latifundialization and Isaiah 5.8-10 / D.N. Premnath; title: Social groupings and social roles. Seeing is believing : the social setting of prophetic acts of power / Thomas W. Overholt; title: The social location of the deuteronomists : a sociological study of factional politics in late pre-exilic Judah / Patricia Dutcher-Walls; title: Role dedifferentiation in the book of Ruth / Jon L. Berquist; title: Inclusion, exclusion and marginality in the book of Joshua / Lori Rowlett.